SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 274, 18 April 1918, Page 19

SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE.

Supt.: Miss Maunder. A deputation waited on the Minister of education during last Convention, urging the need of Temperance teaching in the schools. One result has been that many of the schools have been supplied with new up-io-datc wall sheets. The Minister said the question would be considered by his Department to introduce more definite teaching. 1 have supplied Auckland and Wellington Training Colleges with teachers” leaflets, but notwithstanding several letters, 1 have been unable to get a reply from Dunedin. I have also interviewed a good many head masters, leaving literature, and was courteously received, some of them showing interest in the work. I have also written to the Minister of Education and the Editor of the School Journal urging that articles on the effects of alcohol should be more often inserted in the Journal, and some very useful reading lessons have appeared. The following Unions gave prizes for Temperance essays:—Tinwald and Willowbv, Waimate. Bluff. Oxford, Palmerston N., and Hawera iprizes offered, but headmaster failed at the last moment). The following report Temperance teaching in Schools, Rands of Hope, and L.T.L.’s:—Kaiapoi, Christchurch (charts used by Rev. Patterson in

many addresses), Bluff, Palmerston N. (charts used, many Boy Scouts attend L.T.L. meetings), Dunedin, and Hawera. Timaru sent Temperance pamphlet to headmaster.